This fall we bought new windows for our house, and I also bought a new camera with a higher zoom capability, so now I’m taking a lot more pictures of visiting birds at our backyard bird feeders. I’ve ...

We found the image was an authentic photo illustrating the density of an emperor penguin's feathers, so have rated this claim as "True." The photograph was originally posted on X in July 2018, by the ...

Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be ...

Is it possible that feathers weren’t the first extravagant skin appendages in reptiles? The recent discovery of Mirasaura grauvogeli’s remarkable dorsal crest has upended long-held assumptions about ...

A few years ago, Maria McNamara was invited to Brussels by fellow paleontologist Pascal Godefroit and presented with an intriguing opportunity. At the time, they were collaborating on a study of an ...

A flamingo-pink bird has been turning heads in Bay View throughout the summer. The bird is the the same size and shape of a northern cardinal. It behaves like a cardinal and seen in typical cardinal ...

A crest on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil seems to be a new type of appendage made of neither feathers nor hair. The creature may have used the crest for communication. The specimen pre-dates ...

Readers have been asking about birds in their backyards with ratty-looking body feathers or without any head feathers at all. They have particular concern about "bald" Northern cardinals, birds whose ...

The female penguin who received a custom wet suit as part of her specialized care at SeaWorld Orlando is starting off 2017 with a fresh coat of feathers. Wonder Twin the penguin is 26-years-old and ...

A frayed, faded flight feather from the wing of a blue jay lay like a worn ribbon on my driveway beneath the shade of a mulberry tree. The once lustrous, sturdy feather had helped propel an assertive ...

Birds of a feather: Pigeon head crest findings extend to domesticated doves. ScienceDaily. Retrieved December 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 06 / 150623180305.htm Molecular ...